Electric Fields of Synaptic Currents Could Influence Diffusion of Charged Neurotransmitter Molecules

Synapse

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 270-278

  Savtchenko, Leonid P ^a,b   Kulahin, Nikolaj ^b   Korogod, Sergey M ^b   Rusakov, Dmitri A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OLES HONCHAR DNIPRO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Electrodiffusion; Glutamate; Spillover; Synaptic cleft; Voltage drop

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER; SYNAPSE RECEPTOR;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ION CURRENT; KINETICS; MEMBRANE CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

DIFFUSION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0942276223     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.10300     Document Type: Article

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